Amodei's 'exponential' claims about AI are proving true: Here's what has already changed

New Delhi, March 3 -- About a month ago, I built my first app. It was a simple speed-reader Chrome extension that is designed to display text one word at a time so I can read an article faster than no... Read More

The significance of India's role in AI diffusion took centre stage at the New Delhi summit

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- In November 2023, a few governments and technologists gathered at Bletchley Park to discuss artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to come to terms with the technology they were d... Read More

Regulation please: AI doing its own medical research entails the risk of putting human lives in danger

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Early in 2020, as cities around the world began locking down in response to covid, a few researchers were still able to continue to run their experiments. Even though they, like ... Read More

How AI allows us to end the practice of treating animals as a resource for scarce substances

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Ambergris is a waxy substance produced by sperm whales to protect their digestive tract from indigestible debris. Once expelled, it floats to the surface, washing up as flotsam o... Read More

Who does the law hold liable for what AI agents do? That's the problem, not what they do on MoltBook

New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with speculation that an army of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents had begun conspiring against us. Overheard conversations between ... Read More

It's pointless asking AI to 'explain' itself: But here's an effective way we humans could hold it accountable

New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- If there is one thing those who design artificial intelligence (AI) policies insist on, it is that the AI systems we build should be explainable. It seems to be a reasonable requ... Read More

Intellectual property rights have a downside: They slow innovation down in fast-evolving sectors

New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Science and technology have advanced most reliably when carried out in the open. Isaac Newton was only able to publish Principia Mathematica because he was able to "stand on the ... Read More

Identity theft: Technology solutions exist to tackle India's problem of KYC data leakages

New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- Today, more than half of all data breach incidents target personally identifiable information-tax identities, passport numbers, biometric data and the like. In most instances, thi... Read More

Will the next quarter of a century be as full of technology surprises as the past 25 years?

New Delhi, Dec. 30 -- On the last day of the year 2000, the future looked bright. The world had survived the Y2K bug, and early signs seemed to indicate that the rapid proliferation of internet access... Read More

AI training methods do not violate our copyright law-but the output that AI models generate might

New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- In Ex Machina last week ('AI use of original work: A reverse Robin Hood proposal'), I argued that the working paper issued by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Interna... Read More

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